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The two smile as they look down at a photo album together.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63487_012_KQED_AlisonFordBerkeley_03022023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63487_012_KQED_AlisonFordBerkeley_03022023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63487_012_KQED_AlisonFordBerkeley_03022023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63487_012_KQED_AlisonFordBerkeley_03022023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63487_012_KQED_AlisonFordBerkeley_03022023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alison Ford and her father, Algiin Ford, look through a family photo album in Berkeley on March 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ford was always interested in her family’s history, but it wasn’t until Granny Ford, her father’s grandmother, died in 2015 — at age 102 — that she really began seeking out information about the distant relatives she only knew vaguely from Granny Ford’s stories. She wanted more context about who she was.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Ford\"]‘Growing up, I knew that I was only a couple generations removed from slavery.’[/pullquote]Ford ultimately traced her lineage to generations of enslaved ancestors, all the way back to her great-great-great-great-grandfather, Isaac.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[He] was probably a slave until he was my age,” said Ford, 44. “That is mind-blowing to me. And he then went on to sharecrop and have kids that did the same. But his grandkids were literate and landowners.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve always felt connected to that part of my family history, because I spent so much time with my great-grandmother,” she continued. “Growing up, I knew that I was only a couple generations removed from slavery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Reparations Task Force is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">examining the historic harms of slavery and anti-Black racism in California\u003c/a>. Last summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ab3121-reparations-interim-report-2022.pdf\">task force released a preliminary report (PDF)\u003c/a> detailing California’s history of enslavement and its many decades of discriminatory policies — in housing, education, health care, criminal justice and other areas — that established the systemic racism that persists today. This summer, the task force will present recommendations on how Black residents should be compensated for this enduring oppression.[aside label=\"Reparations in California\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations,Explore why California launched the first-in-the-nation task force to study reparations for Black people\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/2022/02/RiCLandingPageGraphic-1020x574.png\"]If the task force’s recommendations are adopted by the state Legislature, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/03/30/1089629383/california-group-votes-to-limit-reparations-to-slave-descendants\">many Black Californians will have to prove their eligibility for reparations\u003c/a>. To help with this, the preliminary report proposed establishing a California African American Freedmen Affairs Agency to “support potential claimants with genealogical research to confirm eligibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 5–4 vote in March 2022, the task force voted in favor of lineage-based reparations that would be “determined by an individual being an African American descendant of a chattel enslaved person or the descendant of a free Black person living in the U.S. prior to the end of the 19th century.” But there’s still a lot yet to be finalized about what kind of specific documentation would be required to prove eligibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eligibility has loomed over the first-in-the-nation statewide task force since it began meeting in June 2021. There’s a wide spectrum of opinion on how feasible it will be to document eligibility — and considerable concern about the emotional toll Black Californians will have to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The task force will continue the debate on eligibility Wednesday and Thursday in Sacramento, including defining the parameters of a residency requirement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ford allowed me to observe a session with a genealogy consultant, offering a window into the process of documenting ancestry. Having a deeper understanding of what her ancestors endured brought the weight of their existence into sharper focus.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alison Ford\"]‘Such a huge net of people had to go through so many traumatic things for me to be here having this conversation.’[/pullquote]“Such a huge net of people had to go through so many traumatic things for me to be here having this conversation,” she told KQED. “I don’t think that there’s an amount of money that would make it right, but I think that it serves to show that there has just been generational trauma that has very directly led to the financial disenfranchisement of African Americans in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a person can track their ancestry back to the 1870 census, and their relative was living in a state that practiced enslavement, some genealogists feel it is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the ancestor likely was enslaved. The census tracked additional components, like whether a person could read and write; that could lend support to the likelihood the person was enslaved since enslavers often \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hgse/status/1227940488579174400?lang=en\">forbid the people they held captive from becoming literate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/files/research/census/african-american/census-1790-1930.pdf\">Black people were not counted as part of the country’s population until the 1870 census (PDF)\u003c/a>, the first undertaken after the Civil War. That’s because, until then, enslaved people were considered property, said Sharon Morgan, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/13488807931/about/\">Our Black Ancestry\u003c/a>, a Facebook genealogy group with more than 36,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who were enslaved, we were not considered people,” said Morgan, a genealogist in Macon, Mississippi, who has served as a consultant for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aahgs.org/\">Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society\u003c/a>. “You find them in property records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many genealogists, including Morgan, said they were only able to access some records by sifting through physical archives. Morgan originally traveled to Mississippi, where the vestiges of enslavement show in glaring racial disparities, to do research on a distant relative who, she said, had 17 children fathered by the nephew of her enslaver. “I came to Mississippi to write a book about it, and I ended up staying. And my book still isn’t finished,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be lucky enough to find a will, a deed or some other family papers, farm records — something else that will identify your ancestor,” Morgan continued. “But there’s another problem, because those lists are generally only by first name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kellie Farrish, a genealogist based in the East Bay, said the scavenger hunt described by Morgan is mostly a thing of the past because of the digitization of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with shoulder-length dark hair and a navy business suit speaks with a microphone in hand at the California Ballroom in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kellie Farrish speaks about tracing genealogy and locating enslaved ancestors during a California Reparations Task Force listening session at the California Ballroom in Oakland on May 28, 2022. The session was sponsored by the task force and hosted by the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It used to be a lot of traveling,” said Farrish, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JybSOSrlj9k\">presented at a task force meeting in March 2022\u003c/a>. “And [the records are] in boxes, if they’re even maintained at all. That world just doesn’t exist anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrish, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.reparativegenealogy.com/\">Reparative Genealogy\u003c/a>, which helps Black people trace their lineage to the earliest ancestor documented in the United States, has been working in genealogy for more than 15 years. The first time we talked on the phone, she told me to think about navigating genealogy like navigating geography: Drivers used a road atlas before printing out MapQuest directions; now they use Google Maps on their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same with genealogy,” she said. “This is what ancestry has become. And the group that needs to realize that the most is African Americans. As we build out everyone’s [family] tree, this work becomes easier and easier and easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we dug into the past, details about Granny Ford’s life, like her leaving Arkansas as a young mother to escape what she’d described as an unhealthy marriage, are reflected in government records. Harry Broadnax, Granny Ford’s grandfather, was recorded in the 1870 census, though his surname was misspelled as “Brodinax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3575px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session.png\" alt=\"A computer screen shot of a Zoom conversation between three women. On the screen, a census record of Harry Broadnax from 1870. Broadnax was the enslaved ancestor of Alison Ford.\" width=\"3575\" height=\"1889\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session.png 3575w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session-800x423.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session-1020x539.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session-160x85.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session-1536x812.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session-2048x1082.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session-1920x1015.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3575px) 100vw, 3575px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kellie Farrish (top) goes over the 1870 census record of Harry Broadnax (misspelled as ‘Brodinax’), the enslaved ancestor of Alison Ford (bottom), as reporter Mary Franklin Harvin (center) observes. To be eligible for lineage-based reparations, Black Californians will have to prove they are descended from a chattel enslaved person or from a free Black person living in the US prior to the end of the 19th century. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alison Ford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Broadnax, who was Isaac’s son, was born in 1846 in Arkansas 15 years before the start of the Civil War. In 1860, a year before the war began, about a quarter of the state’s population was enslaved. “He got to experience a lot of life [after slavery], but then he also experienced a lot of life being a slave,” Farrish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1870, Broadnax was a 24-year-old farm laborer in Union County, Arkansas, most likely sharecropping on the land where his ancestors had been enslaved. Broadnax was illiterate, but records show the children he raised with his wife, Cloie, could read and write at a young age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Broadnax] doesn’t have time to go to school, but they’re going to make sure that John and Wallace and Fred and M.H. and Clara go to school,” Farrish said as she scrolled through the records for the Broadnax children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Ford how she felt after combing through census records, draft cards and more.[aside postID=news_11942302 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/blackminer.jpg']“I keep going back to the literacy,” said Ford, who lives in Los Angeles and works in the finance industry. “My family is really big on words. My grandmother was, up until her last few weeks on Earth, [she’d] wake up in the morning and ask for her eyeglasses and the newspaper. And I would say, ‘Let me read it to you, Granny.’ And she’s like, ‘As long as these eyes work, I have to do it myself.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cheryl Grills, director of the Psychology Applied Research Center at Loyola Marymount University and a task force member, voted against lineage-based reparations because of the trauma associated with searching for enslaved ancestors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not every Black person wants to do this genealogy thing. It could be triggering,” Grills said. “It could be retraumatizing because [of] what the family had to go through, what the family suffered and endured.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to free and low-cost online genealogy community forums like Our Black Ancestry, Ancestry.com has an agreement with many public libraries that allows users to access the site for free. \u003ca href=\"https://www.familysearch.org/en/\">FamilySearch.org\u003c/a>, which is funded by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is also free. The Bay Area has more than a dozen physical \u003ca href=\"https://www.familysearch.org/centers/locations/\">FamilySearch centers\u003c/a>, with many more throughout the state; the centers offer Zoom support groups that \u003ca href=\"https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Oakland_California_FamilySearch_Library/Classes_and_Workshops\">specialize in African American genealogy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some might be hesitant to use genealogical services offered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/09/22/mormon-church-lds-black-racism\">the Mormon church, which has a documented history of racism\u003c/a>. But Farrish points out that there are few industries in the country that haven’t been buttressed by slavery or racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s your ancestry information, and they are holding it whether or not you seek it from them,” she said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cheryl Grills, director, Psychology Applied Research Center, Loyola Marymount University\"]‘I think it’s going to be very important that we have alternatives for folks who legitimately just cannot establish the lineage criteria.’[/pullquote]Hiring a professional like Farrish to do individualized genealogical research can be costly. According to the Association of Professional Genealogists, hourly rates for \u003ca href=\"https://www.apgen.org/cpages/how-to-hire-a-professional-genealogist\">genealogical consultations typically start around $30 an hour and climb to over $200 per hour\u003c/a>, depending on the experience level of the genealogist. A basic Ancestry.com subscription costs $25 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grills said some people will have a difficult time tracing family lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be very important that we have alternatives for folks who legitimately just cannot establish the lineage criteria,” she said. “We don’t want to further injure the African American community because we made a decision that seemed to be right at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in California, Granny Ford lived in Texas. A single mother, she raised four children in the home she bought on Athens Street in San Francisco. For generations, Ford’s ancestors owned land and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 663px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63878_Winfrey-Ford-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A grandmotherly figure with curly, gray hair sits in a wooden arm chair smiling for the camera. Her hands delicately placed on her knees as she smiles for the camera.\" width=\"663\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63878_Winfrey-Ford-qut.jpg 663w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63878_Winfrey-Ford-qut-160x230.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winfrey Broadnax Ford, known as Granny Ford to her family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alison Ford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ford, who recalled the tomatoes and herbs Granny Ford grew in her backyard and at a community garden in the neighborhood, can’t afford to buy a house where she lives and works. According to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Public Policy Institute of California, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-housing-divide/\">Black homeownership rate in the state is 36.8%\u003c/a>, about 26% lower than the rate for white households. “To a large extent, the racial homeownership gap reflects persistent income inequalities,” the analysts note, while pointing out that the median income for white households in the state is 65% higher than Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe that the fact that I have not yet bought a home is tied to my choice to remain in California,” said Ford, who once considered moving to Georgia, a state where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/housing-finance-policy-center/projects/forecasting-state-and-national-trends-household-formation-and-homeownership/georgia\">homeownership rate for Black people is 47.6%\u003c/a>, according to the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve chosen to remain in California, primarily, because this is where my family is,” Ford continued. “Sometimes I regret not leaving, but I wouldn’t want to be terribly far from my parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Such a huge net of people had to go through so many traumatic things for me to be here having this conversation,” she told KQED. “I don’t think that there’s an amount of money that would make it right, but I think that it serves to show that there has just been generational trauma that has very directly led to the financial disenfranchisement of African Americans in this country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a person can track their ancestry back to the 1870 census, and their relative was living in a state that practiced enslavement, some genealogists feel it is sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the ancestor likely was enslaved. The census tracked additional components, like whether a person could read and write; that could lend support to the likelihood the person was enslaved since enslavers often \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hgse/status/1227940488579174400?lang=en\">forbid the people they held captive from becoming literate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/files/research/census/african-american/census-1790-1930.pdf\">Black people were not counted as part of the country’s population until the 1870 census (PDF)\u003c/a>, the first undertaken after the Civil War. That’s because, until then, enslaved people were considered property, said Sharon Morgan, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/13488807931/about/\">Our Black Ancestry\u003c/a>, a Facebook genealogy group with more than 36,000 members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who were enslaved, we were not considered people,” said Morgan, a genealogist in Macon, Mississippi, who has served as a consultant for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aahgs.org/\">Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society\u003c/a>. “You find them in property records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many genealogists, including Morgan, said they were only able to access some records by sifting through physical archives. Morgan originally traveled to Mississippi, where the vestiges of enslavement show in glaring racial disparities, to do research on a distant relative who, she said, had 17 children fathered by the nephew of her enslaver. “I came to Mississippi to write a book about it, and I ended up staying. And my book still isn’t finished,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be lucky enough to find a will, a deed or some other family papers, farm records — something else that will identify your ancestor,” Morgan continued. “But there’s another problem, because those lists are generally only by first name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kellie Farrish, a genealogist based in the East Bay, said the scavenger hunt described by Morgan is mostly a thing of the past because of the digitization of records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945036\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with shoulder-length dark hair and a navy business suit speaks with a microphone in hand at the California Ballroom in Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS56257_005_KQED_OaklandReparationsListeningSession_05282022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kellie Farrish speaks about tracing genealogy and locating enslaved ancestors during a California Reparations Task Force listening session at the California Ballroom in Oakland on May 28, 2022. The session was sponsored by the task force and hosted by the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It used to be a lot of traveling,” said Farrish, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JybSOSrlj9k\">presented at a task force meeting in March 2022\u003c/a>. “And [the records are] in boxes, if they’re even maintained at all. That world just doesn’t exist anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrish, who owns \u003ca href=\"https://www.reparativegenealogy.com/\">Reparative Genealogy\u003c/a>, which helps Black people trace their lineage to the earliest ancestor documented in the United States, has been working in genealogy for more than 15 years. The first time we talked on the phone, she told me to think about navigating genealogy like navigating geography: Drivers used a road atlas before printing out MapQuest directions; now they use Google Maps on their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the same with genealogy,” she said. “This is what ancestry has become. And the group that needs to realize that the most is African Americans. As we build out everyone’s [family] tree, this work becomes easier and easier and easier.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we dug into the past, details about Granny Ford’s life, like her leaving Arkansas as a young mother to escape what she’d described as an unhealthy marriage, are reflected in government records. Harry Broadnax, Granny Ford’s grandfather, was recorded in the 1870 census, though his surname was misspelled as “Brodinax.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3575px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945024\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/Farrish-Ford-Genealogy-Session.png\" alt=\"A computer screen shot of a Zoom conversation between three women. On the screen, a census record of Harry Broadnax from 1870. 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To be eligible for lineage-based reparations, Black Californians will have to prove they are descended from a chattel enslaved person or from a free Black person living in the US prior to the end of the 19th century. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alison Ford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Broadnax, who was Isaac’s son, was born in 1846 in Arkansas 15 years before the start of the Civil War. In 1860, a year before the war began, about a quarter of the state’s population was enslaved. “He got to experience a lot of life [after slavery], but then he also experienced a lot of life being a slave,” Farrish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1870, Broadnax was a 24-year-old farm laborer in Union County, Arkansas, most likely sharecropping on the land where his ancestors had been enslaved. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hiring a professional like Farrish to do individualized genealogical research can be costly. According to the Association of Professional Genealogists, hourly rates for \u003ca href=\"https://www.apgen.org/cpages/how-to-hire-a-professional-genealogist\">genealogical consultations typically start around $30 an hour and climb to over $200 per hour\u003c/a>, depending on the experience level of the genealogist. A basic Ancestry.com subscription costs $25 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grills said some people will have a difficult time tracing family lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to be very important that we have alternatives for folks who legitimately just cannot establish the lineage criteria,” she said. “We don’t want to further injure the African American community because we made a decision that seemed to be right at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before settling in California, Granny Ford lived in Texas. A single mother, she raised four children in the home she bought on Athens Street in San Francisco. For generations, Ford’s ancestors owned land and homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 663px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945037\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63878_Winfrey-Ford-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A grandmotherly figure with curly, gray hair sits in a wooden arm chair smiling for the camera. Her hands delicately placed on her knees as she smiles for the camera.\" width=\"663\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63878_Winfrey-Ford-qut.jpg 663w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS63878_Winfrey-Ford-qut-160x230.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winfrey Broadnax Ford, known as Granny Ford to her family. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alison Ford)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ford, who recalled the tomatoes and herbs Granny Ford grew in her backyard and at a community garden in the neighborhood, can’t afford to buy a house where she lives and works. According to an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Public Policy Institute of California, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-housing-divide/\">Black homeownership rate in the state is 36.8%\u003c/a>, about 26% lower than the rate for white households. “To a large extent, the racial homeownership gap reflects persistent income inequalities,” the analysts note, while pointing out that the median income for white households in the state is 65% higher than Black households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe that the fact that I have not yet bought a home is tied to my choice to remain in California,” said Ford, who once considered moving to Georgia, a state where the \u003ca href=\"https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/housing-finance-policy-center/projects/forecasting-state-and-national-trends-household-formation-and-homeownership/georgia\">homeownership rate for Black people is 47.6%\u003c/a>, according to the Urban Institute, a nonprofit research organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve chosen to remain in California, primarily, because this is where my family is,” Ford continued. “Sometimes I regret not leaving, but I wouldn’t want to be terribly far from my parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>It’s a sunny afternoon in McLaren Park in San Francisco’s Excelsior District. Throngs of people are gathered on either side of a roadway that snakes down a steep hill. As they watch, a person riding what looks like a giant black Converse sneaker whooshes past. Coming up close behind it, a cast-iron bathtub whizzes by on what could’ve been the frame of a lawn mower. Then another driver — this one clinging for dear life onto what looks like a torpedo — hurtles by, inches off the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby held by the San Francisco Museum of Art — what we now know as SFMOMA — on May 18, 1975. It was a race for homemade cars. No engines! You just needed to be able to roll, steer and stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/2022-soapbox-derby-at-mclaren-park/\">On April 10, SFMOMA is reviving its Soapbox Derby in McLaren Park.\u003c/a> Homemade cars that can coast under the power of their own gravity will have their turn in the spotlight, careening down an 800-foot hill. It’s free and open to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFMOMA/status/1502125212581576708\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Soapbox Derby is a revival of the 1975 event, which is now an institutional legend at SFMOMA. Then, as now, the country was in transition. The war in Vietnam had just ended and San Franciscans were looking for a bit of fun in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was playful. It was joyous,” said Amanda Pope, a professor of cinematic arts at the University of Southern California. “It wasn’t about advertising. It was just the artists getting out of their studios, doing something fun, a little outrageous, which is very much in the style of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the spring of 1975, Pope was living in San Francisco and got tipped off about the event by a friend with ties to the museum. She borrowed a camera and recruited her friend, Lisa Fruchtman, to help her with sound. (Fruchtman would go on to win an Oscar for editing “The Right Stuff” and was nominated again for her work on “The Godfather Part III.”) The footage they captured became Pope’s first documentary: “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/2022-soapbox-derby-at-mclaren-park/#doc\">The Incredible San Francisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://vimeo.com/9069815\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first derby was the brainchild of late Bay Area artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.fletcherbenton.com/test\">Fletcher Benton\u003c/a>. Benton wanted to bring local artists together to have fun and raise money for the museum at the same time. He hoped the museum would use any money raised to acquire more work from local artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Soapbox Derby started out as a whimsical statement that I made in the studio one day,” Benton told Pope’s documentary crew. “I said, ‘Why don’t we get the artists to build cars that would reflect their art or reflect their feelings or their fun? And we’d all get together and coast down the hill.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The flag is up on the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Benton and his fellow planners got the go-ahead from the museum and started recruiting local artists to make cars and trophies for the derby. Artists got up to $100 per project to put toward expenses. Some of the more notable contributors who signed up included \u003ca href=\"https://ruthasawa.com/\">Ruth Asawa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.violafrey.org/\">Viola Frey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-carlos-villa-5561\">Carlos Villa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1058px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a woman posing in a long white dress with a colorful cape and a crown shaped like a hat.\" width=\"1058\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg 1058w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-800x983.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-1020x1253.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-160x197.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florence ‘Flo’ Allen, a beloved artists’ model, played the role of Derby Queen at the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby in 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/florence-allen-san-francisco-artists-soap-box-derby-16644\">Unidentified photographer. Florence Allen papers, 1920-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to artists, there were community icons like the late Florence “Flo” Allen. A legend among artists’ models in San Francisco, Allen was sketched by the likes of Diego Rivera and Mark Rothko. She was Derby Queen, with a car-themed headdress that looked like a mini-version of something from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878995/preserving-the-legacy-of-beach-blanket-babylon-one-hat-at-a-time\">Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the cars were more direct in concept, like a giant No. 2 pencil from renowned ceramicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.richardshawart.com/bio.html\">Richard Shaw\u003c/a>. Pope interviewed him about his creation back in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really nervous about the pencil impaling somebody, so we flipped coins [about who would drive],” Shaw said. “And we just tried to tell the people to get back so that they wouldn’t get wiped out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cars were more conceptual. There was a giant hand holding a pen by artist \u003ca href=\"https://jamespatrickfinnegan.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=44253&Akey=BQTA3L7A&ajx=1\">Jim Finnegan\u003c/a> that Amanda Pope remembers as “The Mark of the Artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA.jpg\" alt=\"What looks like a giant hand holding a pen rolls down a hill. Spectators stand in the background\" width=\"799\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA.jpg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soapbox car by Jim Finnegan, at the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby, May 18, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rudy Bender/ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ingenious. At a certain point, he release[d] ink from inside the hand,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An artist known as Meadow created “52 Vibrations” — a mishmash of sculpted anatomy that included a row of hands clutching working vibrators jutting out like spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was definitely a dimension of eroticism in some of the designs of the cars. Just a celebration. I mean, you’re talking ’70s. It was, you know, feminism, women’s rights,” Pope said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the car that is probably the most recognizable from the event — and which continues to capture the imaginations of people who are only just learning about the 1975 race — is “Moulton’s Edible Special,” created by artist Dorcas Moulton. The whole frame of the car was made from real bread — even the hubcaps, which looked like giant English muffins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman in a car entirely made out of bread comes speeding down a hill. A crowd of spectators look on with trees behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-800x450.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-1020x574.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-160x90.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar-1536x864.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moulton’s Edible Special, by Dorcas Moulton, at the first Artists’ Soapbox\u003cbr>Derby, May 18, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Fannie Farmer had a hot roll mix, and I figured rolls were appropriate, so I did that for the white bread. And then the black bread was a Russian rye or pumpernickel,” Moulton said. “It was a plywood and chicken-wire frame on top of four bicycle wheels. We had axles. We had a steering wheel somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She miraculously stayed upright all the way down the hill, despite pieces of bread flying in every direction. When she reached the finish line, eager admirers swarmed the bread car, prying off pieces of the frame — either as souvenirs or snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made this little quip about, if you get stuck in a traffic jam, you can just, you know, break off a piece of the fender and have a snack while you’re stuck,” Moulton said. Legendary San Francisco columnist Herb Caen printed the remark along with an Associated Press photo that ran in newspapers around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of humor and ephemeral nature of Moulton’s Edible Special echoed one big idea put forward by the derby: that art didn’t need to be inside a museum — or even permanent — to be worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I am a ‘lifestyle artist,’ working in whatever medium I was currently playing with, like bread or, now, [in] my garden here in El Sobrante,” Moulton said, “Not every artist wants to be in museums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So much more than cars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You didn’t have to make a car to participate in the Soapbox Derby. Some artists made trophies instead. Categories included: “Most Amorphous,” “Most Macabre,” “Most Biodegradable,” “Most Illusory” and “\u003ca href=\"https://diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv/bundles/232915\">The Booby Prize.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moulton’s Edible Special won the “Most Endearing” prize, but Moulton didn’t remember what her trophy looked like or where it ended up. I had to break the news to her that, according to SFMOMA’s records, the world-renowned sculptor, Ruth Asawa, made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh, dear. What have I done? A priceless Ruth Asawa slipped through my fingers!” Moulton moaned.[emailsignup newslettername=\"baycurious\" align=\"right\"]SFMOMA also confirmed it has no photographic record or description of the trophy, and even Asawa’s daughter, Aiko Cuneo, a working artist who still lives in the Bay Area, doesn’t have a recollection of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish I could remember what the trophy looked like because I’m sure I saw it at some point,” she said. Cuneo was 25 when the first derby happened, and remembers it fondly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had never been to McLaren Park before, so it was a great sort of field trip to go there. The location was so perfect because it had these really wide roadways that weren’t too steep,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Moulton, Cuneo appreciated that the derby was a chance to get away from the formality — even pretension — that often surrounds museums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Soapbox Derby brought the museum outdoors and did make it so much more accessible to anybody. I thought it was so great that these artists could relive their childhood and be outrageous and uncensored and just have a lot of fun,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A changing museum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Back in 1975, the San Francisco Museum of Art \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/sfmoma-rose-to-international-prominence-under-lea/\">had a new director named Henry Hopkins\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a background as an educator, and so I think he really saw the value of community engagement,” said Tomoko Kanamitsu, the director of public engagement at SFMOMA today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hopkins took the helm of the museum, it was much smaller and less distinguished. It originally took up just one floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building on Van Ness Avenue. But during Hopkins’s tenure, the stature of the museum would shift dramatically. It would become the San Francisco Museum of \u003cem>Modern\u003c/em> Art, and Hopkins would help chart its rise to international prominence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kanamitsu noted a shift in focus at the museum in the decades following the first Soapbox Derby that coincided with that period of growth for the museum. She said the ’70s were a unique, inward-looking time for the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that if I was to kind of project about what happened later, I think there was a lot of outward looking later on in the ’80s and ’90s and 2000s about being a museum at a world-class-museum scale,” Kanamitsu said. “And I think that has, in many ways, created a separation with the local art community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within SFMOMA, Kanamitsu said, the derby is seen as a touchstone that encapsulates what a museum can be to its community. So reviving the event this year is a gesture of community recognition — and also a galvanizing force inside the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The pandemic has been so devastating, obviously to the whole world, but to arts institutions in particular. We suffered many layoffs,” Kanamitsu said. “Then there was the whole public reckoning around \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881257/sfmoma-faces-censorship-racism-accusations-over-george-floyd-response\">the censoring of Taylor Brandon\u003c/a>, and as SFMOMA staff, we’ve had a hard time, and we really need something to kind of get us excited about why we do what we do and to kind of show that art isn’t just something that’s on the walls at the museum. Art is everywhere. And what better way to do that than to revive the 2022 Soapbox Derby?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The first derby was the brainchild of late Bay Area artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.fletcherbenton.com/test\">Fletcher Benton\u003c/a>. Benton wanted to bring local artists together to have fun and raise money for the museum at the same time. He hoped the museum would use any money raised to acquire more work from local artists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Soapbox Derby started out as a whimsical statement that I made in the studio one day,” Benton told Pope’s documentary crew. “I said, ‘Why don’t we get the artists to build cars that would reflect their art or reflect their feelings or their fun? And we’d all get together and coast down the hill.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The flag is up on the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Benton and his fellow planners got the go-ahead from the museum and started recruiting local artists to make cars and trophies for the derby. Artists got up to $100 per project to put toward expenses. Some of the more notable contributors who signed up included \u003ca href=\"https://ruthasawa.com/\">Ruth Asawa\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.violafrey.org/\">Viola Frey\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-carlos-villa-5561\">Carlos Villa\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910376\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1058px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910376\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a woman posing in a long white dress with a colorful cape and a crown shaped like a hat.\" width=\"1058\" height=\"1300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian.jpeg 1058w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-800x983.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-1020x1253.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/Allen_Flo_Smithsonian-160x197.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1058px) 100vw, 1058px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Florence ‘Flo’ Allen, a beloved artists’ model, played the role of Derby Queen at the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby in 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy \u003ca href=\"https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/items/detail/florence-allen-san-francisco-artists-soap-box-derby-16644\">Unidentified photographer. Florence Allen papers, 1920-1997. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to artists, there were community icons like the late Florence “Flo” Allen. A legend among artists’ models in San Francisco, Allen was sketched by the likes of Diego Rivera and Mark Rothko. She was Derby Queen, with a car-themed headdress that looked like a mini-version of something from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11878995/preserving-the-legacy-of-beach-blanket-babylon-one-hat-at-a-time\">Beach Blanket Babylon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the cars were more direct in concept, like a giant No. 2 pencil from renowned ceramicist \u003ca href=\"http://www.richardshawart.com/bio.html\">Richard Shaw\u003c/a>. Pope interviewed him about his creation back in 1975.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really nervous about the pencil impaling somebody, so we flipped coins [about who would drive],” Shaw said. “And we just tried to tell the people to get back so that they wouldn’t get wiped out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other cars were more conceptual. There was a giant hand holding a pen by artist \u003ca href=\"https://jamespatrickfinnegan.com/Artist.asp?ArtistID=44253&Akey=BQTA3L7A&ajx=1\">Jim Finnegan\u003c/a> that Amanda Pope remembers as “The Mark of the Artist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910371\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 799px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910371\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA.jpg\" alt=\"What looks like a giant hand holding a pen rolls down a hill. Spectators stand in the background\" width=\"799\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA.jpg 799w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/06_1975-First-Artists-Soap-Box-Derby_SFMOMA-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Soapbox car by Jim Finnegan, at the first Artists’ Soapbox Derby, May 18, 1975. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Rudy Bender/ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ingenious. At a certain point, he release[d] ink from inside the hand,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An artist known as Meadow created “52 Vibrations” — a mishmash of sculpted anatomy that included a row of hands clutching working vibrators jutting out like spikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was definitely a dimension of eroticism in some of the designs of the cars. Just a celebration. I mean, you’re talking ’70s. It was, you know, feminism, women’s rights,” Pope said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the car that is probably the most recognizable from the event — and which continues to capture the imaginations of people who are only just learning about the 1975 race — is “Moulton’s Edible Special,” created by artist Dorcas Moulton. The whole frame of the car was made from real bread — even the hubcaps, which looked like giant English muffins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11910369\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11910369\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/04/SoapboxDerby-BreadCar.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman in a car entirely made out of bread comes speeding down a hill. 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And then the black bread was a Russian rye or pumpernickel,” Moulton said. “It was a plywood and chicken-wire frame on top of four bicycle wheels. We had axles. We had a steering wheel somehow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She miraculously stayed upright all the way down the hill, despite pieces of bread flying in every direction. When she reached the finish line, eager admirers swarmed the bread car, prying off pieces of the frame — either as souvenirs or snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I made this little quip about, if you get stuck in a traffic jam, you can just, you know, break off a piece of the fender and have a snack while you’re stuck,” Moulton said. Legendary San Francisco columnist Herb Caen printed the remark along with an Associated Press photo that ran in newspapers around the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense of humor and ephemeral nature of Moulton’s Edible Special echoed one big idea put forward by the derby: that art didn’t need to be inside a museum — or even permanent — to be worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess I am a ‘lifestyle artist,’ working in whatever medium I was currently playing with, like bread or, now, [in] my garden here in El Sobrante,” Moulton said, “Not every artist wants to be in museums.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So much more than cars\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You didn’t have to make a car to participate in the Soapbox Derby. Some artists made trophies instead. 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"content": "\u003cp>Building on a court victory from late last year, the law firm Edelson PC has filed suits against two of the largest bail bonds companies in California, \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21523671/10-medina-v-two-jinn-20220323.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21523671/10-medina-v-two-jinn-20220323.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Aladdin Bail Bonds\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"c-link\" href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21523678/2022-03-23-0001-complaint-against-all-pro-bail-bonds-inc-filing-fee-402-receipt-number-acandc-17018274-filed-bradley-v-all-pro-bail-bonds-inc.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21523678/2022-03-23-0001-complaint-against-all-pro-bail-bonds-inc-filing-fee-402-receipt-number-acandc-17018274-filed-bradley-v-all-pro-bail-bonds-inc.pdf\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">All-Pro Bail Bonds\u003c/a>. Edelson has proposed that both be \u003ca href=\"https://edelson.com/california-bail-bonds\">expanded into class actions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filings seek to void existing contracts and seek restitution in the form of refunds for people who’ve co-signed bail bond contracts without getting state-mandated notices that make clear what that obligation entails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaman Salahi, a partner at Edelson’s San Francisco office, told KQED that the contracts could affect a co-signer’s credit, while also exposing them to lawsuits and wage garnishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those notices would have explained to people the consequences of co-signing, including that the bail bond companies could come after them for the balance of those loans, even without going to the person who had been arrested first,” Salahi added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/case/bbbb-bonding-corp-v-caldwell\">2021 California appellate court decision\u003c/a>, people who co-sign bail bonds are entering into a consumer credit loan contract and are protected by \u003ca href=\"https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-civil-code/division-3-obligations/part-4-obligations-arising-from-particular-transactions/title-185-consumer-credit-contracts/section-179991-notice-to-cosignor\">a part of California consumer protection law\u003c/a> that mandates creditors provide notices that make clear to people what they are liable for when they co-sign on a debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week's filings ask that bail contracts where the co-signer wasn’t provided this documentation be declared invalid and unenforceable. The filings also seek restitution in the form of refunds for people who were affected by this practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s very common for people who get arrested to not have even close to the amount they’d need to post bail — especially in California, where \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/pretrial-detention-and-jail-capacity-in-california/#:~:text=Part%20of%20the%20difference%20in,nation%20(less%20than%20%2410%2C000)\">research shows the state’s median bail amount is $50,000\u003c/a>. That’s more than five times the median in the rest of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get around this, bail bonds companies will charge a nonrefundable premium to secure the rest of the loan. But many people can’t afford even \u003cem>those\u003c/em> premium charges, which could still be several thousand dollars. Instead, people can put a small amount down and then commit to a payment plan for the rest of the premium. As part of the payment plan, incarcerated folks are required to have a co-signer — basically a guarantor on a loan — and a lot of times friends or family members serve as guarantors.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'They knew that I couldn't afford it'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Sherrie Lewis-Sonza’s son was arrested a few years ago, she agreed to co-sign his bond with All-Pro Bail Bonds, a company that has more than 20 locations throughout the state and offers a 20% discount to union members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't recall how much the bail bond was, but it was huge, and they knew that I couldn’t afford it,” Lewis-Sonza, 45, said. “But they still did it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Yaman Salahi, partner, Edelson PC\"]'Cash bail is racist. It's classist. It punishes people simply because they’re poor.'[/pullquote]She lives in subsidized housing in San Francisco, and said the bail payments cost her $300 per month. She has a fixed income, living off the $900 she gets from disability and Social Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after co-signing on her son's All-Pro bond, she ended up signing onto another one after he was arrested again, this time with Aladdin Bail Bonds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What a lot of co-signers like Lewis-Sonza don’t realize, Salahi said, is that bail bonds companies will come after them for the bail debts, even before seeking payment from the person who’s been arrested — and even if that person is no longer incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the areas where providing an explanatory notice of liabilities could make a big difference in whether people decide to co-sign or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They tend to go after the co-signers because they view those people as more creditworthy and able to pay,” Salahi said. “Many bail agents are very aggressive in trying to collect. And so people start receiving harassing phone calls, letters in the mail, phone calls at work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is exactly what happened to Lewis-Sonza, even though she said her son was released within a week of his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was out at the time and they were still harassing us. They didn’t mess with him,” Lewis-Sonza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debt burden stretched across her extended family. Not only did the company’s debt collectors dig up her grandmother’s information and start calling her, but the premium costs got so unaffordable for Lewis-Sonza that her brother and her son’s girlfriend also ended up co-signing. At one point, the bond companies also were garnishing the girlfriend’s wages, Lewis-Sonza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An important reminder here: The bail bond premium fee, which is usually 10% of full bail, is nonrefundable. So that’s a debt that will be owed even if the person who’s been arrested shows up in court or gets released.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>People of color bear disproportionate impact\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11535497/report-bail-hits-people-of-color-hard-strips-15-million-a-year-from-s-f-residents\">2017 study\u003c/a> showed that bail bonds cost San Francisco residents at least $15 million a year, and that most of the time the people paying these fees are women of color. People of color are disproportionately affected by bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You are already talking about a population that is being targeted because they are economically vulnerable,” Salahi said. “They’re not in a position to pay out of pocket, and they're not in a position to post bail in some other way other than working through a bail agent.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11535497 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/06/RS25858_0M6A3565-qut-1038x576.jpg']And there can be vulnerabilities outside just financial strain that co-signers are coping with as they navigate the burdens of bail debt. Rio Scharf runs the \u003ca href=\"https://lccrsf.org/get-assistance/bail-clinic/\">Bail Clinic\u003c/a>, a service offered by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco to help people navigate the bail system. Scharf said the clinic has helped several clients who ended up in bail bond debt as a result of relationships involving domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes our clients were in violent relationships, and when their partner was arrested, either for violence against them or for some other act, they [felt] coerced into co-signing on behalf of that partner,” Scharf explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scharf also has had clients “who finally defended themselves against an abusive partner [and] were then arrested for that act of self-defense and are now shouldering debt from that arrest and the bail bond they had to secure to get themselves released from jail.” In some cases, Scharf said, the debts must still be repaid even if charges were never pressed against them or their case was subsequently dismissed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights was one of several legal groups that raised the concerns that resulted in the 2021 ruling, which reaffirmed that bail bonds companies are, in fact, required to issue explanatory documentation to co-signers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Working in conjunction with other pro bono legal support, Scharf and the Bail Clinic have been able to eliminate over $23,000 of Lewis-Sonza’s debt and secured a refund of more than $11,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people go through it every day and don't know it. And I was just so lucky to come across them,” Lewis-Sonza said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Scharf, between the All-Pro and Aladdin bonds, the combined premiums added up to $35,000. This means the combined full bail amounts were at least $350,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Salahi and Scharf see these co-signer issues as just a microcosm of a larger flawed system: cash bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the efforts of various people have demonstrated over the past several years is that cash bail is racist. It's classist. It punishes people simply because they’re poor,” Salahi said. “It’s not effective in making sure that people show up for their trial dates or in keeping communities safe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11866532 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/RS45504_013_KQED_SanFrancisco_BailBonds_10282020-qut-1020x680.jpg']Last year, the California Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/29/982417595/california-does-away-with-cash-bail-for-those-who-cant-afford-it\">decided to begin factoring in peoples’ financial standings when it came to setting bail\u003c/a>, but it’s too soon to tell how uniformly it will be enforced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salahi sees this week’s filings as one way to help lift some financial burdens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These lawsuits are just one piece of a broader effort to scrutinize this industry, as well as the practice of cash bail. And hopefully change things so that we are in a more equitable situation when it comes to the criminal justice system in California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A press contact for the American Bail Coalition said its spokesperson was not familiar with the practices at issue in this story and therefore unable to comment. The California Bail Agents Association also had no comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither Aladdin Bail Bonds nor All-Pro Bail Bonds returned KQED’s calls requesting comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>If his daughter in the Bay Area hadn’t sent a tweet asking for help, 69-year-old Yevgenii Burdol and his 94-year-old mother likely would still be stranded in their apartment in Kyiv, as bombing continues to devastate the Ukrainian capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just decided to go on Twitter and try to do what I do as a journalist, which is look for information, talk to people. So I put out a tweet,” said Katia Savchuk, a freelance journalist in San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/katiasav/status/1500226852647890944\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk has written for multiple major media outlets and developed a substantial Twitter presence, with more than 6,500 followers. But she still didn’t expect the response she got: more than 30,000 retweets and more than 90,000 likes, along with at least 100 direct messages of support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the tens of thousands of people who saw the tweet, one would eventually help them find a path to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 3 million refugees now have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its unprovoked invasion at the end of February. This week, UNICEF shared the harrowing statistic that the conflict is creating a new child refugee \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1113942#:~:text=More%20than%203%20million%20people,in%20the%20last%2020%20days.&text=Some%201.5%20million%20children%20have,invasion%20began%20on%2024%20February.\">almost every second\u003c/a>. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday \u003ca href=\"https://www.c-span.org/video/?518685-1/ukrainian-president-zelensky-calls-us-back-fly-zone-provide-defensive-weapons\">addressed U.S. lawmakers\u003c/a>, imploring them and President Biden to send more support, and sharing a jarring video documenting the devastation in his country.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katia Savchuk, Bay Area journalist\"]'I just decided to go on Twitter and try to do what I do as a journalist, which is look for information, talk to people. So I put out a tweet.'[/pullquote]While officials have some sense of the number of people the war is displacing, it’s harder to keep track of how many have made it to safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Yevgenii and Zoia Burdol are two of the lucky ones. They reached a hotel in Heidelberg, Germany late last week – it’s now their temporary home until they figure out what’s next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk, who has a Jewish background, was born in Kyiv and emigrated to the United States in 1989, at age 3, when her mother and maternal grandmother fled antisemitism in the Soviet Union. Her father stayed behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908669\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg\" alt=\"Katia Savchuk with her father Yvgenii Burdol when she visited Kyiv in 2016.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol.jpeg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Katia-Savchuk-Yvgenii-Burdol-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Katia Savchuk (left) with her father, Yvgenii Burdol, during a visit to Kyiv in 2016. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Savchuk says she didn't see him again in person until she was 21, nearly two decades later. They’ve kept in touch through phone calls and messaging apps, and she had been checking in on him often as the prospect of war grew increasingly imminent. Her father didn’t initially believe the invasion would happen, she says, but not long after Putin launched the attacks, he told her that he was seriously considering evacuation options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's a man of few words and not very emotive … so when he told me, you know, ‘I'm worried. I'm concerned,’” Savchuk said, “that really scared me because he doesn't normally admit that kind of thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her father and grandmother, Zoia, had been living for days amid air sirens and keeping their lights out at night to avoid being an easier target for Russian aircraft. Because of her mobility issues, Zoia did not feel safe getting all the way down to their building's basement bomb shelter, where she would likely have been packed into a crowded, confined space. Savchuk decided she needed to do what she could to find help for them before things got worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Escaping Kyiv\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A lot of the advice Savchuk received in response to her tweet wasn’t applicable to her family’s situation. Her grandmother has limited mobility and recently had recovered from COVID-19. Savchuk said she probably hadn’t left the house in a year. Because of her condition, making the journey on a bus or a train, with the potential for long stops in freezing weather, wasn't an option.[aside label=\"Related coverage\" tag=\"ukraine\"]Finding a car was the ideal route, but Savchuk’s father has a disability related to his eye and neck that prevents him from driving. So they needed to find someone willing to take them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the people who responded to the tweet was a German journalist whom Savchuk had never met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knew Wladimir Klitschko, who is a famous Ukrainian boxer, and his brother, Vitali Klitschko, who's the mayor of Kyiv. And he mentioned the situation to them, and they decided that they wanted to help,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Klitschkos requested assistance from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-russia-military-citizen-reservist-defense/\">Territorial Defense Forces\u003c/a>, Ukraine’s new military branch that everyday civilians have been joining to defend their homeland. Volunteers from the force and a logistics group informed the Burdols of their departure date, set for March 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So they found a Toyota minivan that the dealership just lent to them, really,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk’s father and grandmother, along with a family friend — and that friend’s pet parrot — loaded into the van and set off on their multiday journey across multiple borders from Ukraine to Germany.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908672\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 763px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908672\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg\" alt=\"An elderly woman surrounded by two men in camouflage.\" width=\"763\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van.jpeg 763w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Zoia-Oles-Igor-in-front-of-van-160x141.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 763px) 100vw, 763px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoia Burdol (center) with Territorial Defense Forces escorts Oles Maliarevych (left) and Igor Silchenko on their journey from Kyiv, Ukraine, to Germany. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Katia Savchuk)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Just weeks earlier, their heavily armed escorts were regular civilians, Savchuk notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In normal times, you know, one of them's a film producer and on the city council. But now they're wearing bulletproof vests. They have Kalashnikovs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days later, on March 10, the Burdols arrived safely at their hotel in Heidelberg. Savchuk says her grandmother surprised everyone involved with how well she handled the long journey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think one of the first things she did when they arrived in the hotel was to ask for some cognac,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the two already have been embraced in their first week there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know they have been invited to take part in a press conference. They've been featured in at least two German newspapers and also in TV broadcasts,” she said. “I know that they had a visit with the mayor of Heidelberg and with the chief rabbi of Heidelberg, so they're being warmly welcomed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/katiasav/status/1502182321398509569\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk’s grandmother — who lost both of her parents in the Holocaust — told one news outlet that she was relieved to no longer fear dying in a hail of gunfire and bombs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Savchuk said that while her family will be able to stay at the hotel for the immediate future, their longer-term horizon is unclear at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'You did the impossible'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“I think it's all a big question mark right now, and they're just trying to rest and recover and probably just feel the weight of the fact that they left their homeland … where they've lived all their lives and just left with a couple of suitcases,” Savchuk said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of all of this, Savchuk was caring for her 11-month-old baby and working on a freelance project — \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/21/vlogging-the-war\">her first piece for The New Yorker\u003c/a>, which also was centered on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a journalist with an online profile, Savchuk knows her platform undoubtedly gave her access to resources and suggestions that many others don’t have.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Katia Savchuk, Bay Area journalist\"]'I think one of the first things [my grandmother] did when they arrived in the hotel was to ask for some cognac.'[/pullquote]“A sense of guilt or privilege that, you know, I was able to tap this network and sort of move mountains,” she said. “My dad's friend who went with them said, ‘You did the impossible.’” Now, Savchuk has been trying to use the knowledge she’s gained to help people in similar situations, and she’s \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yoIgWVG6FWhGCMlpvs_mPvrQkkTf7o5Pw24SDxC18FM/edit?usp=sharing\">compiled a Google Doc\u003c/a> with a list of support services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the devastation in Ukraine continues, she is grappling with conflicting emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a very confusing mix of relief, you know, that my grandmother doesn't have to cower in fear after everything that she's been through,” she said, “and while at the same time, just realizing that we kind of just got really lucky. 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The eligibility requirements for these funds are quite broad: Essentially, if you are a citizen or permanent resident, you aren’t a dependent for tax purposes and you don’t make over $75,000 for individuals, you should qualify.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after the CARES Act passed, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/05/18/checks/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May of 2020\u003c/a>, the IRS determined that incarcerated people weren’t eligible for the stimulus payments and asked over 950,000 incarcerated people to return more than $1 billion worth of payments the IRS had already distributed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prison authorities around the country took note of that and started to treat any attempt by somebody in their custody to apply for or obtain those funds as some form of misconduct,” said Yaman Salahi, a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein in San Francisco — even to the extent, Salahi said, that, “we were hearing from people who said, [they were] sent to the hole, which is solitary confinement, because [they] tried to do this, or all of [their] correspondence about this [had] been confiscated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salahi helped argue the \u003ca href=\"https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/LSB/LSB10586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">class action suit\u003c/a> that would confirm incarcerated people are in fact eligible for the stimulus payments initially established by the CARES Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we took a look at the issue, we determined that the IRS’s position was almost certainly unlawful because it had no basis in the law that Congress passed,” said Salahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LieffCabraser/status/1316811868577513473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A judge agreed, and in October of 2020, the IRS reversed its policy and again began issuing the checks to incarcerated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The barriers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Robert Abeyta went into jail in July of 2020, so the doubt the IRS raised about eligibility and the back and forth it caused happened while he was incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though we were eligible to receive those checks, the jail would not receive the checks,” said Abeyta. “They would send them back. 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Abeyta didn’t have H&R Block or even the internet, and he could only use the phone for set periods of time.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Robert Abeyta\"]‘It’s really hard when you’re in a cage all the time … there’s something about that environment that really exhausts a person.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if the forms got flagged by the IRS, trying to get through to figure out what happened and how to fix it felt nearly impossible with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/23/irs-1040-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wait times on the agency phone lines\u003c/a>. It wasn’t easy to stay hopeful and persistent, Abeyta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driving factor was just believing in what we were doing. It’s really hard when you’re in a cage all the time … there’s something about that environment that really exhausts a person,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abeyta said one saving grace was consistent support from advocates on the outside, like the \u003ca href=\"https://nlgsf.org/programs-committees/nlg-sfba-programs/santa-rita-jail-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Rita Jail Hotline\u003c/a>, an affiliate of the National Lawyers Guild’s San Francisco/Bay Area chapter, who gave support over the phone and helped distribute explainer packets with the filing forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salahi from Lieff Cabreser said, after the class action confirmed incarcerated people were eligible for the stimulus, the courts also told the IRS it was obligated to send notices to incarcerated people confirming they were eligible, and to officials at detention facilities explaining the same, and asking them not to interfere with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Santa Rita’s White said, as of December 2021, the facility has never heard directly from the IRS about the stimulus funds. White said he and his colleagues became aware of their residents’ eligibility through the advocacy group Bay Area Legal Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If they’ve committed crimes, why should I care if they get their money?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Abeyta, and many other incarcerated folks seeking out these funds, have committed serious crimes, so many people may not be sympathetic about them struggling to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Gregoratos, who directs the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office’s unique in-house advocacy department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsheriff.com/services/jail-services/prisoner-legal-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prisoner Legal Services\u003c/a>, gets it. But, he also says, “Ninety-nine percent of the people here in our jail right now are not convicted of a crime. They’re awaiting trial.” Gregoratos says those waits have gotten even longer during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His colleague, Nubia Aguilera, pointed out that the funds can also go to offset basic amenities incarcerated people need in prisons, which, under normal circumstances, they would likely buy with money from friends and family on the outside. Because of the pandemic, these friends and family may not have enough resources to go around even at home, much less to send out to support folks inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the people locked up aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit from these funds, Aguilera said: “I know a lot of them have been, you know, filling out release forms to let their money go to family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the incarcerated people whom Aguilera and Gregoratos have supported through this process is 64-year-old Vincent Jacobo from San Francisco. He’s been incarcerated in the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno for a little over eight years, awaiting trial for murder.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Vincent Jacobo\"]‘I was just happy that I could help them because I’ve never done anything for [my family] before in my life.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo had never filed taxes before he submitted a return to get his stimulus money, so it was easier for his checks to get snagged, because the IRS didn’t have a previous record of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo said he didn’t want the money for himself: “The only thing I would do is spend it all on commissary. So I released it to a friend of mine here and he put it in Western Union and sent it, I’ve sent it down to help my kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobo’s daughter and grandchildren live in Southern California. When he finally got his money, Jacobo says, they were able to pay down bills and rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just happy that I could help them because I’ve never done anything for them before in my life. So it was, yeah, I was happy I could do something for them,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December of 2020, Robert Abeyta, back at Santa Rita Jail, finally got his money. His bail was a little over a thousand dollars, he said, so getting his stimulus money also meant getting his freedom. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In California, it costs about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/covid-19-response-efforts/#CJI\">$94 a day to jail a person\u003c/a>, so state taxpayers likely doled out over $14,000 to cover Abeyta’s time in lockup while he waited for federal money he was due. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His public defender, Joseph Goldstein-Breyer, said Abeyta has used the extra time on the outside to start turning his life around: “Since he was out of custody, Mr. Abeyta had the opportunity to jump through so many hoops to get his life together. I had a laundry list I could bring to the district attorney to say, ‘Don’t interrupt this wonderful, healthy momentum he has.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the year that Abeyta has been out of jail, said Goldstein-Breyer, he has enrolled in treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues. He has also been hired as an agent for a government support program to distribute what are colloquially known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.truconnect.com/lifeline?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=wefi_targeting&gclid=CjwKCAiAksyNBhAPEiwAlDBeLJat-pzrCBwmz68Awx81c1kfOmwhXVQSq4uF0PoW1mnsAD6FmfCpaRoCeQ4QAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obamaphones\u003c/a>” to people with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899089\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a hat and blue shirt holding a device stands next to a white SUV with a sign that reads \"Assurance\" and the trunk opened.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Abeyta helps people sign up for Assistance Wireless, a government program to supply free phone plans to people with lower incomes, in Castro Valley on Dec. 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abeyta is taking biology and history classes at Coastline College and has had his driver’s license restored. “At first, he was renting a car to get to all of these commitments, and then, because of saving money through work and improving his credit score, he was able to buy a 2019 Kia Niro, which he’s so proud of,” Goldstein-Breyer added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Abeyta resolved his most recent charge without receiving additional jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where are we now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to Santa Rita Jail’s Dean White, as of the end of August 2021, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is no longer returning stimulus payments it receives on behalf of people incarcerated there. That means, for about 10 months after the class action suit confirmed that people locked up were eligible for this money, those incarcerated at Santa Rita were still having to use workarounds to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says the jail also established a hotline connecting its residents with tax assistance volunteers through the Alameda County Social Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to advocates at Bay Area Legal Aid, after considerable back and forth between their team and officials at Santa Rita, the jail set up a process to give people more flexibility around phone use, and to allow them to use a fax machine to send documents to the IRS if they have gotten stuck on hold three times for 45 minutes. Santa Rita’s White corroborated the details of the current process, with slight adjustments, saying the residents needed to be stuck on hold for an hour and that Santa Rita would lend them support by emailing the IRS as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the Santa Rita Jail Hotline also say they are no longer receiving regular calls from people incarcerated there about stimulus payment issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregoratos at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office says his office has been receiving checks on behalf of folks incarcerated in the county throughout the pandemic. To date, they have assisted over 200 people in getting their money and have released about 100 payments to family members of those incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are currently around 150,000 people incarcerated in California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/population-reports-2/\">prisons\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bscc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/Jail-Pop-Trends-Through-Q2-2021.pdf\">jails\u003c/a>. This reporting represents experiences of people only in county jails; it does not speak to how folks in state prisons have fared. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told KQED it is not tracking how many incarcerated people have received payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it would be really helpful to have some transparency about what the current status is of the backlog. If the IRS thinks it needs more resources to get through that expeditiously, then I think it would be good for the public to know that and for Congress to act,” said Lieff Cabreser’s Salahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For incarcerated people who have yet to pursue the funds, Salahi said the IRS has said it will still accept their tax returns. For those who’ve already submitted returns, it’s unclear how many haven’t gotten their stimulus money, but, he said, his office continues to get calls and letters almost daily from people still waiting for their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting into almost two years after the first set of stimulus payments were passed and authorized by Congress. The whole point, and it’s in the law that Congress passed, was to have the IRS issue [the payments] as rapidly as possible. And I think two years later is not rapid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, if the forms got flagged by the IRS, trying to get through to figure out what happened and how to fix it felt nearly impossible with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/23/irs-1040-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wait times on the agency phone lines\u003c/a>. It wasn’t easy to stay hopeful and persistent, Abeyta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The driving factor was just believing in what we were doing. It’s really hard when you’re in a cage all the time … there’s something about that environment that really exhausts a person,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abeyta said one saving grace was consistent support from advocates on the outside, like the \u003ca href=\"https://nlgsf.org/programs-committees/nlg-sfba-programs/santa-rita-jail-hotline/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Santa Rita Jail Hotline\u003c/a>, an affiliate of the National Lawyers Guild’s San Francisco/Bay Area chapter, who gave support over the phone and helped distribute explainer packets with the filing forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salahi from Lieff Cabreser said, after the class action confirmed incarcerated people were eligible for the stimulus, the courts also told the IRS it was obligated to send notices to incarcerated people confirming they were eligible, and to officials at detention facilities explaining the same, and asking them not to interfere with the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Santa Rita’s White said, as of December 2021, the facility has never heard directly from the IRS about the stimulus funds. White said he and his colleagues became aware of their residents’ eligibility through the advocacy group Bay Area Legal Aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>If they’ve committed crimes, why should I care if they get their money?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Abeyta, and many other incarcerated folks seeking out these funds, have committed serious crimes, so many people may not be sympathetic about them struggling to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nick Gregoratos, who directs the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office’s unique in-house advocacy department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfsheriff.com/services/jail-services/prisoner-legal-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prisoner Legal Services\u003c/a>, gets it. But, he also says, “Ninety-nine percent of the people here in our jail right now are not convicted of a crime. They’re awaiting trial.” Gregoratos says those waits have gotten even longer during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His colleague, Nubia Aguilera, pointed out that the funds can also go to offset basic amenities incarcerated people need in prisons, which, under normal circumstances, they would likely buy with money from friends and family on the outside. Because of the pandemic, these friends and family may not have enough resources to go around even at home, much less to send out to support folks inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the people locked up aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit from these funds, Aguilera said: “I know a lot of them have been, you know, filling out release forms to let their money go to family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the incarcerated people whom Aguilera and Gregoratos have supported through this process is 64-year-old Vincent Jacobo from San Francisco. He’s been incarcerated in the San Francisco County Jail in San Bruno for a little over eight years, awaiting trial for murder.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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He has also been hired as an agent for a government support program to distribute what are colloquially known as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.truconnect.com/lifeline?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=wefi_targeting&gclid=CjwKCAiAksyNBhAPEiwAlDBeLJat-pzrCBwmz68Awx81c1kfOmwhXVQSq4uF0PoW1mnsAD6FmfCpaRoCeQ4QAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Obamaphones\u003c/a>” to people with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11899089\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11899089\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a hat and blue shirt holding a device stands next to a white SUV with a sign that reads \"Assurance\" and the trunk opened.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52928_005_CastroValley_RobertAbeyta_StimulusChecks_20211214-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Robert Abeyta helps people sign up for Assistance Wireless, a government program to supply free phone plans to people with lower incomes, in Castro Valley on Dec. 14, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Abeyta is taking biology and history classes at Coastline College and has had his driver’s license restored. “At first, he was renting a car to get to all of these commitments, and then, because of saving money through work and improving his credit score, he was able to buy a 2019 Kia Niro, which he’s so proud of,” Goldstein-Breyer added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Abeyta resolved his most recent charge without receiving additional jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Where are we now?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to Santa Rita Jail’s Dean White, as of the end of August 2021, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office is no longer returning stimulus payments it receives on behalf of people incarcerated there. That means, for about 10 months after the class action suit confirmed that people locked up were eligible for this money, those incarcerated at Santa Rita were still having to use workarounds to get their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White says the jail also established a hotline connecting its residents with tax assistance volunteers through the Alameda County Social Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to advocates at Bay Area Legal Aid, after considerable back and forth between their team and officials at Santa Rita, the jail set up a process to give people more flexibility around phone use, and to allow them to use a fax machine to send documents to the IRS if they have gotten stuck on hold three times for 45 minutes. Santa Rita’s White corroborated the details of the current process, with slight adjustments, saying the residents needed to be stuck on hold for an hour and that Santa Rita would lend them support by emailing the IRS as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates at the Santa Rita Jail Hotline also say they are no longer receiving regular calls from people incarcerated there about stimulus payment issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregoratos at the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office says his office has been receiving checks on behalf of folks incarcerated in the county throughout the pandemic. 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If the IRS thinks it needs more resources to get through that expeditiously, then I think it would be good for the public to know that and for Congress to act,” said Lieff Cabreser’s Salahi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For incarcerated people who have yet to pursue the funds, Salahi said the IRS has said it will still accept their tax returns. For those who’ve already submitted returns, it’s unclear how many haven’t gotten their stimulus money, but, he said, his office continues to get calls and letters almost daily from people still waiting for their money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re getting into almost two years after the first set of stimulus payments were passed and authorized by Congress. The whole point, and it’s in the law that Congress passed, was to have the IRS issue [the payments] as rapidly as possible. And I think two years later is not rapid,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are experiencing alarmingly high rates of hate incidents at their jobs, in addition to an overwhelming fear of being targeted at their jobs, according to two studies released this month, one from the California-based coalition Stop AAPI Hate and another from UCLA’s Center for Neighborhood Knowledge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Stop AAPI Hate report combines data from self-reported incidents on the group’s website with a national survey of over 1,000 respondents administered between Sept. 21, 2021, and Oct. 8, 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/StopAAPIHate/status/1461437841901187072\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://knowledge.luskin.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/v2_full_AA-Biz-Impacts.pdf\">UCLA study\u003c/a> data comes from surveys sent out in April 2021 by the Asian Business Association of Los Angeles to businesses across Southern California, shortly after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/03/17/us/shooting-atlanta-acworth\">spa shootings in Atlanta\u003c/a> and soon following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11859965/700-anti-asian-hate-incidents-reported-in-bay-area-during-pandemic-true-figures-might-be-even-worse\">spike in AAPI hate crimes in California\u003c/a>. 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